Does my motherboard support NVMe?

[MeowCat13]

So I’m trying to upgrade the HDD to an SSD in my dads desktop, and I want to know if the motherboard, HP 2B47 will support an NVMe SSD or if I should just stick with a SATA SSD. It has a PCIe express port and an M.2 port but idk if it will actually support the speed/ if it will boot from an NVMe or if the ports are not compatible... would appreciate any help given.

thanks 

[DGroves]

when posting please give the HP series and full model number

you have listed just the motherboard model, and this board is used in numerous HP systems with diffrent case styles that can hold diffrent HD configurations

if this is your board, then no you can not install a motherboard based SSD as there is no M.2 "B" or "M" keyed slot for it only a "A" slot that only supports wireless cards (no Hard Drives) you also only have two SATA ports so if you have a HD + DVD drive then all ports are in use, that leaves the single PCI-e 1x slot for adding in a card that has sata ports. this can be done but HD speeds connected this way will be a bit slower than the onboard sata ports

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04790427

[MeowCat13]

Thanks for getting back to me, that’s cleared a few things up. However could I not install a NVMe SSD into the PCIe x16 slot with a simple adaptor?

eg 960 evo using a x4 PCIe adaptor?

this is the exact PC 

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c04835128

[DGroves]

depends, is the system using  Integrated video, or is the pcie x16 slot ocupied with a descrete video card?

[MeowCat13]

The x16 socket does have a graphics card in it, but all the computer is used for us emails and excel sheets so it’s not needed. 

[DGroves]

ok, is your current cpu a model that has embedded graphics? if not then you can not remove the pcie video card untill you replace the cpu with a cpu that has embedded graphics

[MeowCat13]

CPU is i5-6400 so yeah it should have integrated graphics 

Soo I should be fine then?

[DGroves]

yes, power down remove the AMD card and power back on, enter windows and if nessary it will detect a new graphic device and it should auto dl the driver if not visit the intel site and get the "HD 530" series graphic driver

[MeowCat13]

Sounds good, really appreciate the help! Hopefully  the new SSD works.